Pictured: the 'real site' of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for which the
location has for centuries remained elusive.

Now, though, an academic from Oxford University believes she has solved one of
the world’s last great archaeological mysteries by identifying the precise
spot on which the Hanging Gardens of Babylon once stood.

Dr Stephanie Dalley focused her search hundreds of miles north of the site of
the ancient city of Babylon, now near Hillah, in central Iraq, to support
her theory that the lush, elevated marvel was in fact built near the city of
Ninevah, in the north of the country....